My first website [1]

Well, I knew it was meant to be going live but I didn't know it actually *had*. The website that I have been making is viewable to the world at http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/ridley/ and is very cool. The most interesting and readable parts are the tutorials which are quite interesting in many cases.

If you find mistakes let me know but it should all work. :)

So there you go, the most interesting LJ thing I've written in a while. Shower me with praise or something.

Edit: Yup, it all appears to be fubarred. That's what happens when somebody else uploads everything... Thank you for pointing this out. It didn't occur to me that they might be that muppetous. :)

Second Edit: OK. Confusing state of affairs. The tutorials section didn't work because at some point another "default" file was uploaded and this one took precedence over the correct one. That has now been told to be deleted. The resources link being broken was my fault for not updating a link properly (slap wrists) but is being updated now. Now does of course mean in the next three hours apparently but that's because of the way things get promoted from dev to live (batch job stylee)

Anybody wishing to view the tutorials in the meantime can just go to http://www.blackwellpublishing.com/ridley/tutorials/default.asp from wher the links should all work. default.htm is the bust one.

Thanks for the feedback guys.

[1] For Blackwell publishing

Tech-related whinge

OK. I filled the last post with a few edits but this whinge is slightly different so I am going to add it into a whole new post. Also it might make it look like I post more often than I really do. :)

You would think a staging web server would be set up the same as a live one wouldn't you? You know, so that things look the same on both? Nope. Here they have slight differences. My issues (well, most of them) were due to the fact that the web page worked fine on the wip (work in progress) server because there they serve default.asp in preference to default.htm for directory "indexes". On the live server they do it the other way around. Hence it all working on the test but not after promotion to live.

Yeah, I shouldn't have left the obsolete.htm file there but they shouldn't have ****ed up the web server to make it do stupid things.

Harrumph. I've got somebody to put in a helpdesk comment on it (of course I'm not allowed to have access to the helpdesk) so hopefully they will fix it or give a nice comedy reason for me to laugh at (and probably put up on my livejournal).

Still, at least it should be working soon...

End whinge.

Thought for the day

Courtesy of a friend at work:

Never hold your farts in, they travel up your spine into your brain... and that's when you get crap ideas.